This week brings a departing series, an especially obscure show-and-tell from a veteran mangaka, and a discussion about digital manga publication. Plus: more updates on Konami’s increasingly bizarre decisions and the acronym “KACO.”

This episode covers issue 28 of Weekly Shonen Jump from 9 June 2025.

Manga Show-and-Tell this week is Fragging フラッギング by Saruwatari Tetsuya 猿渡哲也.

Full transcripts of the Show-and-Tell can be found at the official Manga Musings Obscure Manga Blog, along with original content dating back over a decade.

In the Jump segment, we cover:

1. Kagurabachi #82
2. One Piece #1151
3. Super Psychic Policeman Chojo #65 (End of Serialization)
4. Ichi the Witch #37

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Our theme music is Rainy Day by Souichi Sakagami.

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This week we bring you prelude to the end of a beloved gag manga in the magazine (not Roboco) and speculate on which other Jump series might be next on the chopping block as a new wave of serializations rolls in. In Show & Tell, Andrew dives into an office-ninja thriller that seems to take itself a bit too seriously. Plus: Card Game Corner turns into a fiery rant about Konami’s baffling decisions in Yu-Gi-Oh!'s retro scene and Sebastian’s final departure from Yu-Gi-Oh! for greener pastures. All that and more on Manga Musings!

This episode covers issue 27 of Weekly Shonen Jump from 2 June 2025.

Manga Show-and-Tell this week is Kabushikigaisha Ninkai Shoji 株式会社忍界商事 by Tada Taiga 多田大我.

Full transcripts of the Show-and-Tell can be found at the official Manga Musings Obscure Manga Blog, along with original content dating back over a decade.

In the Jump segment, we cover:

1. Kagurabachi #81
2. Super Psychic Policeman Chojo #64
3. Ichi the Witch #36 (Lead Color Page)
4. Sakamoto Days #215

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Our theme music is Rainy Day by Souichi Sakagami.

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This week on Manga Musings, we bring you a surreal and bloody new action series with shades of Chainsaw Man and Jujutsu Kaisen, now available to read on Manga Plus. Plus, shocking twists in our Jump segment, Chopper’s design in the live-action One Piece, and a reflection on Stitch’s cultural legacy.

This episode covers issue 26 of Weekly Shonen Jump from 26 May 2025.

Manga Show-and-Tell this week is Nito no Joreishi 二兎の除霊師 (The Nito Exorcists) by Ichikawa Hiromi 市川ヒロミ.

Full transcripts of the Show-and-Tell can be found at the official Manga Musings Obscure Manga Blog, along with original content dating back over a decade.

In the Jump segment, we cover:

1. Kagurabachi #80
2. Syd Craft: Love Is a Mystery #25
3. Sakamoto Days #214
4. Nice Prison #5

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Our theme music is Rainy Day by Souichi Sakagami

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This week on Manga Musings, we bring you another "super" smartphone, new localization announcements, and two Blue Box chapters for the price of one!

This episode covers issue 25 of Weekly Shonen Jump from 19 May 2025.

Manga Show-and-Tell this week is Kami Appli- God of Tools 神アプリ, by Kurihara Shoushou 栗原正尚.

Full transcripts of the Show-and-Tell can be found at the official Manga Musings Obscure Manga Blog, along with original content dating over a decade.

In the Jump segment, we cover:

1. Kagurabachi #79
2. Sakamoto Days #213
3. Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi #44
4. Blue Box #196 (and 197 I guess...)

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Our theme music is Rainy Day by Souichi Sakagami.

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This week, we return from our long hiatus with a deep dive into Matataki no Sonya, the shockingly brutal action series from lingerie rom-com legend Yuzuki Hikaru. And in our Jump segment, a long-awaited new series from Red Hood’s Kawaguchi Yuuki sports beautiful art but tells a familiar tale. Plus: the fate of Syd Craft, Yu-Gi-Oh! censorship, and the return of a prophetic manga?!

This episode covers issue 24 of Weekly Shonen Jump from 12 May 2025.

Manga Show-and-Tell this week is Matataki no Sonya 瞬きのソーニャ by Yuzuki Hikaru 弓月光 of Amai Seikatsu fame.

Full transcripts of the Show-and-Tell can be found at the official Manga Musings Obscure Manga Blog, along with original content dating back over a decade.

In the Jump segment, we cover:

1. Kagurabachi #78
2. Otr of the Flame #1 (New Serialization) (Lead Color Page)
3. One Piece #1148
4. Syd Craft: Love Is a Mystery #23

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Our theme music is Rainy Day by Souichi Sakagami.

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Since Shonen Jump is taking the week off, we're using this time to bring you part 2 of our deep dive into Undead Unluck, covering the events of the manga from the time skip up to the series' recent finale!

Hear the full episode on the Manga Musings Patreon.

Our theme music is Rainy Day by Souichi Sakagami.

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This week’s episode is brought to you by technical difficulties, as Opera GX proves to be yet another bloated Chromium-based browser. Speaking of technology, we’ve got a brand new manga about retro game design, some extra horniness from Hima-Ten!, and our first Halloween show-and-tell of the spooky season!

This episode covers issue 43 of Weekly Shonen Jump from 24 September 2024.

Manga Show-and-Tell this week is Kaiki Manga Michi by Miyazaki Masaru and Adachi Tsuyoshi.

Full transcripts of the Show-and-Tell can be found at the official Manga Musings Obscure Manga Blog, along with original content dating back nearly a decade.

In the Jump segment, we cover:

• Hakutaku #1
• Hima-Ten! #11
• Kagurabachi #50

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Our theme music is Rainy Day by Souichi Sakagami.

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This week we’re bringing you a socially awkward shinobi, more AI panic from creator Yusei Matsui, and an isekai we’ve redubbed “Starting Over Without Any Limbs in Another World.”

This episode covers issue 42 of Weekly Shonen Jump from 17 September 2024.

Manga Show-and-Tell this week is Madou Kikou by Ousuke and Iruka Yoshimitsu.

Full transcripts of the Show-and-Tell can be found at the official Manga Musings Obscure Manga Blog, along with original content dating back nearly a decade.

In the Jump segment, we cover:

1. Shinobi Undercover #1 (New Serialization)
2. Ichi the Witch #2
3. Kagurabachi #49
4. One Piece #1126
5. Elusive Samurai #172

To support the show and to hear exclusive monthly postgame coverage of Boruto, head to the Manga Musings Patreon.

Our theme music is Rainy Day by Souichi Sakagami.

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